{"id":161,"date":"2026-02-20T16:39:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:31:47","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/projects\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Our research focuses on adaptation to coastal hazards from local to national scales with an emphasis on interdisciplinary research on nature-based flood risk reduction. Our topics of interest include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Social vulnerability modeling,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">GeoAI analysis of natural hazards <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Theoretical framing of nature-based solutions,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Interdisciplinary approaches to compound hazards risks,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Equity in coastal flood risks, and related topics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-a947221fe81bb35c0e097f6c000617b3\"><strong>Recent and Ongoing Funded Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>AI-Driven Spatial Targeting of Nature-based Solutions: A Prescriptive Framework for Compound Flood-Heat Resilience in Coastal Virginia<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Funded By: ICAR CARMA (2026 &#8211; 27)<\/strong><br>\u200b(Co-PI Maryam Golbazi)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39251\/2026\/02\/download-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"438\" height=\"115\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39251\/2026\/02\/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-171\" style=\"width:320px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39251\/2026\/02\/download-1.jpg 438w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39251\/2026\/02\/download-1-300x79.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39251\/2026\/02\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"997\" height=\"457\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39251\/2026\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39251\/2026\/02\/image.png 997w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39251\/2026\/02\/image-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39251\/2026\/02\/image-768x352.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 997px) 100vw, 997px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Coastal Virginia is increasingly threatened by compound climate hazards, where coastal flooding and extreme heat interact to create risks for air pollution, human health and ecological communities. This project will develop a spatially integrated framework, AI-enhanced framework to evaluate how Nature-based Solutions (NbS)\u2014including wetlands, living shorelines, dunes, tree canopy, and conserved lands\u2014mitigate overlapping flood and heat exposures across Hampton Roads. It evaluates how different NbS types coincide with or reduce compound flood-heat (CFH) hazards, identifying which NbS are most effective for heat or flood mitigation and under what spatial contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>Quantifying Building-Level Flood Recovery Benefits of Nature-Based Solutions: A GeoAI Scenario Analysis for Coastal Virginia<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Funded By: ICAR RACP (2026 &#8211; 27)<\/strong><br>\u200b(Co-PIs Lisa Wang, Marina Saitgalina)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39251\/2026\/02\/download.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"438\" height=\"115\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39251\/2026\/02\/download.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-170\" style=\"width:335px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39251\/2026\/02\/download.jpg 438w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39251\/2026\/02\/download-300x79.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39251\/2026\/02\/image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"461\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39251\/2026\/02\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39251\/2026\/02\/image-1.png 461w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39251\/2026\/02\/image-1-297x300.png 297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This project develops an Integrated Nature-based Flood Recovery Modeling (INFORM) framework to evaluate the spatial performance of NBS configurations by quantifying how the spatial configuration of NBS influences building-level flood recovery under future sea-level rise conditions (2050\u20132100). Recovery is modeled as a co-produced trajectory toward functional re-occupancy, integrating repair costs, probability of structural failure, and time-to-re-occupancy ranges and thresholds. The analysis evaluates how NBS density, type, proximity, and connectivity affect recovery outcomes and identifies configurations that produce the greatest reduction in recovery time per dollar invested relative to baseline conditions without NBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our research focuses on adaptation to coastal hazards from local to national scales with an emphasis on interdisciplinary research on nature-based flood risk reduction. Our topics of interest include: Recent and Ongoing Funded Projects AI-Driven Spatial Targeting of Nature-based Solutions: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/projects\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31099,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/srazzagh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}